In Re Bock Laundry MacHine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Fernstrom Storage and Van Company International Business Machines v. Fernstrom Storage and Van Company (1991), Continental Air Lines, Inc. v. Hillblom (In Re Continental Air Lines, Inc.) (1986)
3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Holtkamp v. Littlefield · GAF Corp. v. Johns-Manville Corp. (In Re Johns-Manville Corp.) · Matter of McGraw · Jessie v. Honosky (In Re Honosky) · Terry v. Johnson (In Re Terry)
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere filing of a petition in bankruptcy cannot, in and of itself, erase a plaintiff’s claim, their [sic] opportunity to litigate, or the fact that a debtor may be liable to the plaintiff in some amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.